Mary and GG podcast about the 2013 San Francisco Giants season, including thoughts on Brian Wilson signing with the Dodgers.
Posts tagged "Tim Lincecum"
Sweet Chin Muzak – The Giants Are On The Brink Of Another World Series Championship
In the fourteen game stories I’ve written during the San Francisco Giants’ playoff run in the last two and a half weeks, I haven’t written a word about 2010. 2010 was a dream. It was the culmination of year after year of heartbreak (& 808s). The franchise had last won a World Series in 1954 as the New York Giants, but for the San Francisco version of the Giants, they’d never won it all. They’d come close, like in 1962. They were in […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – Live At Game 1 Of The 2012 World Series
Thanks to a lucky break and some fantastic co-workers , I was able to attend game one of the World Series at AT&T Park. The closest I’d come to being at a game of this magnitude was in 2010 when the San Francisco Giants were playing the Philadelphia Phillies in the NLCS. AT&T was rockin’ that day. But it was no where near as loud as it was on Wednesday night. It was rock-concert loud and the home crowd fans rarely stopped cheering. […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – On Tim Lincecum And #RallyZito
Before I mention the Giants loss on Thursday night, I wanted to tell a story. It’s about a man named Tim Lincecum. After blazing through Pac 10 hitters at the University of Washington, this man named Tim Lincecum was the 10th pick of the Giants in the first round of the 2006 Amateur draft. He made minor leaguers look like little leaguers for a short while before being fast tracked to the major leagues. He was a 150-pound fire breathing […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – The Redemption Of Tim Lincecum
If you’ve ready any of my baseball posts around these parts, you may know that Tim Lincecum fascinates me. He fascinates me when he does well, and he also fascinates me when he’s not doing well at all . He’s the most charismatic ball player the San Francisco Giants have had since Barry Bonds. When he’s on the television, you don’t turn away, you don’t get up to get something to drink, and you don’t empty your bladder. Well, except this season. You know that old […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – Mission Impossible
In my post after Saturday night’s debacle , I mentioned that Sunday’s game was now a must-must-win. So what is Tuesday’s game three then? It may be “Mission Impossible”. The Giants looked flat on Saturday night in game one, and then they were steamrolled Sunday night. Their bats were so listless that all the erectile disfunction ads TNT was showing could’ve spliced in shots of the Giants hitting in with the horse back riding and no one would’ve blinked. When the game was finally over, […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – SF Giants Heat Check (2nd Half Edition)
For the last several years, I’ve taken my kids on a bit of a baseball vacation. We head out to San Francisco, CA from our dwellings in the South Bay and take in a few games in a row. Ever since the Giants won the World Series in 2010, that trip has doubled in price because of secondary market ticket costs. Our little fun Giants vacation is now a very expensive 3-day vacation. In addition to spending three days at […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – SF Giants Heat Check (Bochified Edition)
When your favorite team does despicable things, sometimes it’s easier to be disgusted by them than it is to be happy when they play well. That’s the conundrum I’ve found myself in with the San Francisco Giants. I’m bothered more when they do poorly than I am joyful when they do well. I call it the expectation factor. Before 2010, my hope was that they’d play competitively, maybe make it to the playoffs, and who knows what would happen. But […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – Tim Lincecum’s Fastball VeLOSSity
What would Nolan Ryan have been without his fastball? Roger Clemens seemed to cheat to keep his. Doc Gooden wasn’t the same when he lost his. When you’re a power pitcher, everything you ever learned about how to pitch is based off your fastball. You set up your other pitches with it. Ryan could strike guys out with his huge curveball because they had to look fastball or else get blown away. When Clemens’ control was on, no one could […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – SF Giants Heat Check (Opening Day Edition)
Yesterday, I wrote some predictions about the 2012 baseball season . Today, I post the second edition of the SF Giants Heat Check, which is my attempt to discuss my favorite team in depth alongside some of the smartest Giants fans I know. The first edition of the Heat Check was posted last month . Here’s part two: (These questions were sent out before the season started and the Giants currently sit at 1-3 to start the season.) 1. The 25-man roster is now set. The Giants chose to keep […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – The Prince Of Motown And Big Time Timmy Jim
Prince Fielder heads to Motown…and more baseball news in this week’s Sweet Chin Muzak column.
Sweet Chin Muzak – Baseball Podcast
Rather than try to be eloquent in my sorrow (the Giants won’t get to defend their World Series title), I decided to take this show on the road. Actually, I decided to take it to the air. After the St. Louis Cardinals officially caught and surpassed the Atlanta Braves to win the NL Wild Card on Wednesday night, I thought it would be a good time to chat with Daniel Shoptaw, writer and editor of the Cardinals blog C70 At The Bat . We […]
